Portable sewing kits



NOV- 15, LUND PORTABLE SEWING KITS Filed July 6, 1955 m m w w.

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ATTORNEY United States Patent PORTABLE SEWING KITS Gust G. Lund,JamestowmN. Y. 7 Application July 6, 1953, Serial No. 366,128

3 Claims. (Cl. 223-101 3 My invention relates to improvements inportable sewing kits.

The objects of my invention, are to provide a small portable decorativesewing kit having a place for articles used in sewing and mending, i. e.a thimble, a number of spools of thread, a pair of scissors, pins,needles, buttons and a measurin g tape; to provide a readily portablesewing kit which is easy to assemble, which is capable of beingmanufactured at a low cost, which can have its disassembled partscompactly packaged and shipped for assembly by the user, thereby savingassembly, packaging andshipping costs, andwhich because of theselowcosts may be sold at a low price.

Referring now to the drawings: 7 q p Figure 1 is a perspective view of aminiature rocking chair constructed in accordance with the principles ofmy invention.

Figure 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the side, seat and backmembers disassembled.

Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary perspective view of a side member having amodified form of detachable drawer support.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Figure 4 and Figure 6 isa perspective view of a knock-down form of drawer.

Referring now to the drawing it will be seen that my sewing kit, as amatter of preference and not of necessity, is formed as a miniaturerocking chair generally indicated by the numeral 10 and includes a pairof unitary side members 11 each formed with a reentrant seat receivingand supporting slot 12 located intermediate its upper end 13 and arocker 14 formed at its lower end.

A seat member 15 is formed with spaced substantially parallel reentrantslots 16 located adjacent its side end portions 17, and the width andlength of the slots 16 and 12 is such that, when the seat isinterengaged with the side members as shown in Figure 1, the sides ofthe slots 12 each frictionally engage the top and bottom surfaces of theseat 15 and the sides of the slots 16 each frictionally engage the innerand outer sides of the side members 11 thereby detachably securing andmaintaining these parts in their proper interengaged relation withoutthe use of glue or fastening devices.

As best seen in Figure 2 the end portions 17 of the seat extend beyondthe slots 16 and are each provided with three spaced holes 18 in each ofwhich a pin or peg 19 is frictionally secured for removal to morecompactly package the disassembled parts of the kit for shipping. Thespacing of the holes 18 is such that the pegs 19 are sufficiently spacedfrom each other and the associated side member to removably retain aspool of thread S slipped thereover on the end portions 17 (Figure l).

The upper end 13 of each of the side members 11 is formed with areentrant back receiving slot 21 extending in a plane diverging upwardlyand outwardly from the back edge portion of the seat 15 to receive andengage a back panel member 22 formed with reentrant slots 23 spaced toreceive and engage the side members. As in the above describedinterengagement of the sides and the seat, the width and length of theslots 21 and 23 is such that when the back panel member 22 isinterengaged with the side members 11 (Figure 1) the sides of the slots21 frictionally engage the front and back surfaces of the back panelmember 22 and the sides of the slots 23 each frictionally engage theside surfaces of one of the side members 11, thus detachably securingand maintaining these parts in their interengaged relation without theuse of glue or fastening devices.

When the back panel member 22 is fully interengaged with the sidemembers 11 its lower end 24 may simply bear against the upper surface ofthe seat, thus tending to reenforce the chair, or, the lower end 24 maybe extended into and frictionally engage in a coextensive groove 25formed along the rear edge of the seat (Figure 2), thereby providingbetter reinforcement and a more rigid chair in which the interengagementof the end 24 in the groove 25 locks the seat against movement until theend 24 is withdrawn from the groove 25.

As shown in Figure l the central lower portion of the back member 22 iscut-away as at 26 to provide a cen-' tral upstanding tonguelet 27 uponwhich a sewing thimble T, shown in broken lines, may be mounted and theseat is provided with a removable decorative cushion or pad 28 whichserves as a pin and needle cushion.

A drawer 29, of a size to slidably fit between the side members 11 andbeneath the seat 15, is slidably mounted on a pair of rails 39 eachsecured to the inner side of one of the side members 11 in spacedparallel relation to the seat 15. As shown in Figure 3 each rail 39 maybe rigidly secured to its side member as by the nails 41 or, in theevent a more compact arrangement of the parts for packaging and shippingis desired, the modified rails 39' shown in Figure 5 may be detachablysecured to its side member 11 as by forming a half dove-tail shapedtongue 42 on each rail and inserting the tongue endwise into acomplementary half dove-tail shaped groove 43 formed in its side member11, so that the rail is removably held in place by friction.

The drawer 29, as best shown in Figure 6, is preferably of a knock-downconstruction to allow a more compact space saving arrangement of itscomponent parts when disassembled for packing and shipping, however, ifdesired, a permanently assembled drawer may be used. The opposite endportions of the front and back members 31 and 32 of the drawer 29 areeach formed with vertically disposed half dove-tail shaped grooves 33and 34 respectively which receive and frictionally retain therein thecomplementary half dove-tail shaped tongues 33' and 34' formed on thefront and rear ends of each of the side members 35. The back member 32being of less height than the other members allows a drawer bottom 37 tobe slid therebeneath and into frictional engagement in a continuousgroove 36 formed in the inner walls of the front and side membersadjacent and along their bottom edges, thereby completing a suitableknock down drawer construction.

The drawer 29 provides a place for extra spools of thread, a small pairof scissors, a tape measure, buttons and other small articles used insewing and mending. While the drawer may be opened by simply pullingagainst a central depending portion of its front member 31 I prefer toprovide an inexpensive but decorative drawer pull or knob, i. e. thesemi-spherically headed upholstery tack 38 located centrally of themember 31 for this purpose.

From the foregoing detailed description it will be apparent that I haveprovided a decorative, novel and useful sewing kit which is inexpensiveto manufacture, and which because of its knock-down construction, may becompactly packaged for shipment and readily assembled for use.

The specific embodiments of the kit herein shown and described areintended to illustrate the principles of my invention and it should beunderstood that various modifications of the eemponen parts of. the kit.may be: made within the scope of the appended claims wherein,

I claim:

1. A knock-down sewing kit formed as a miniature arm chair comprising; apair of chair side forming members each being formed with a, baseportion, an upwardly extending back member supporting portion and acontinuous, arm portion located above the base portion. and merging intothe back member supportingv portion, each being fiormed with a forwardlyopening, seat. receiving slot. located intermediate its continuous armforming portion and its base for engaging and bracing a seat, each beingformed with an upwardly opening back member receiving slot located inthe upper end oi its back mem her supporting portion and each beingprovided with a drawer supporting rail located on, the inner side of itsbase portion below and in spaced parallel relation to its seat:receiving slots; a seat slidably engageably in the seat receiving slotsand formed at its rearportion with a pair of spaced rearwardly openingside member engaging slots each having its sides slidably engageablewith the opposite sides of one of the side members by rearward, slidingmovement of the seat in the. planes of said seat receiving and sidereceiving slots; a back member slidably engageable in the backreceiving, slots of the side members and formed with a pair ofdownwardly opening slots spaced to engage the spaced side members eachslot having its sides slidably engageable with the opposite sides of theback supporting portion of one of the side members by downward movementin the planes of said back and back receiving slots; whereby the side,seat and back members each mutually engage, space and brace theassociated member; and a drawer for miscellaneous sewing articlesslidable backwardly and forwardly beneath said seat, between said sidemembers and on said rails.

2. A sewing kit as set forth in claim 1 wherein the sides of the seatare extended to support and to provide a place for a plurality of spoolsof thread thereon and are provided with a plurality of upstanding pegsarranged to detachably retain the spools in place.

3. A sewing kit as set forth in claim 1 wherein the center portion ofthe back member is provided with an opening formed, with anupstandingcentral tonguelet shaped to detachably receive and support asewing thimble.

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